Partial quasimorphisms and quasistates on cotangent bundles, and symplectic homogenization

Alexandra Monzner; Nicolas Vichery; Frol Zapolsky

doi:10.3934/jmd.2012.6.205

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2012, Volume 6, Issue 2: 205-249. Doi: 10.3934/jmd.2012.6.205

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Partial quasimorphisms and quasistates on cotangent bundles, and symplectic homogenization

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Fakultät für Mathematik, TU Dortmund, Dortmund
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CMLS École Polytechnique, Palaiseau
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Mathematisches Institut der Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich

Received: December 31, 2011

Published: July 2012

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For a closed connected manifold $N$, we construct a family of functions on the Hamiltonian group $\mathcal{G}$ of the cotangent bundle $T^*N$, and a family of functions on the space of smooth functions with compact support on $T^*N$. These satisfy properties analogous to those of partial quasimorphisms and quasistates of Entov and Polterovich. The families are parametrized by the first real cohomology of $N$. In the case $N=\mathbb{T}^n$ the family of functions on $\mathcal{G}$ coincides with Viterbo's symplectic homogenization operator. These functions have applications to the algebraic and geometric structure of $\mathcal{G}$, to Aubry--Mather theory, to restrictions on Poisson brackets, and to symplectic rigidity.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 53D40, 37J50.

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